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Popular Backup Solution CrashPlan Discontinuing Personal Subscriptions
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Amazon S3 pricing is now cheaper and much more logical to follow. The risk of a restore costing loads more than it should now have gone.
I suspect this is the beginning of the end for all unlimited backup services. I currently use Backblaze, but I have gradually moved my data to iCloud (2 TB at $9.99/month) and Dropbox (free tier with about 100 GB).
That still leaves my iTunes media library (3 TB, as I rip my Blu-Ray collection at full quality). I will probably end up getting a NAS for media library and keep Blu-Ray elsewhere in case I lose NAS entirely.
That still leaves my iTunes media library (3 TB, as I rip my Blu-Ray collection at full quality). I will probably end up getting a NAS for media library and keep Blu-Ray elsewhere in case I lose NAS entirely.
Kudos to Crashplan for being upfront about what’s going on, and offering some pretty nice discounts and alternatives to use during the transition period.
They handled this a whole lot better than Photobucket’s “Bend over so I can stick this in your …” You get the picture.
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Yep. Companies are figuring out that an all-you-can-eat model doesn’t work for storage these days. Amazon Cloud Drive recently came to a similar conclusion, but with not nearly as nice of transition options.
They handled this a whole lot better than Photobucket’s “Bend over so I can stick this in your …” You get the picture.
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Yep. Companies are figuring out that an all-you-can-eat model doesn’t work for storage these days. Amazon Cloud Drive recently came to a similar conclusion, but with not nearly as nice of transition options.
I really like Backblaze and recommend and install it for lots of clients. Only $50 per year for one computer, backs up everything. Be aware that they don't offer any way to reach them by telephone for any reason whatsoever. Only huge enterprise type customers who spend thousands a month may have access. Otherwise it's chat and / or email only.
If I was looking for a direct replacement I’d probably go for backblaze....
But if I was starting fresh I’d go for Arq using backblaze for storage. There’s something nice about encrypting your data before you store it on a cloud server.
Arq is $50 but then storage is only 0.5c per GB and so unless you’re storing terabytes the storage element is cheaper than going direct to backblaze.
Arq is extremely Mac friendly (although it does support Windows now) and there’s a open source utility for restoring data should you find in years to come that Arq has ceased to exist.
But if I was starting fresh I’d go for Arq using backblaze for storage. There’s something nice about encrypting your data before you store it on a cloud server.
Arq is $50 but then storage is only 0.5c per GB and so unless you’re storing terabytes the storage element is cheaper than going direct to backblaze.
Arq is extremely Mac friendly (although it does support Windows now) and there’s a open source utility for restoring data should you find in years to come that Arq has ceased to exist.
My district hasn't really sent out anything "official" yet, but I know what you mean. There was talk about just just dragging our files to Google Drive as a manual, rudimentary backup system. However, this summer, Google did update the Google Drive app to include backups: https://www.blog.google/products/photos/introducing-backup-and-sync-google-photos-and-google-drive/
I haven't used it yet, but it's worth taking a look at this.
I have been using CrashPlan Pro for a long time. I am looking for an alternative for different reasons. I have been testing for 1 year Duplicati.com
Free, multi destiantion, multi OS, AES-256 and other very interesting features.
Lacks the reliability (experimental version), notification and the server side which gives very long restore times if one does not have a good bandwidth.
Free, multi destiantion, multi OS, AES-256 and other very interesting features.
Lacks the reliability (experimental version), notification and the server side which gives very long restore times if one does not have a good bandwidth.
I think it's fair. I'd rather not have to think about it or do extra work. But given what they are offering, I have two years to make my move. So I'd say I'm okay with it.
Thanks for passing that along. I had missed that announcement. Am curious as to how B&S (hey, they named it, I didn't) will rank, both for features and price, vs. other tools that routinely handle many TBs of data. Also, that blog entry doesn't seem to differentiate between true, versioned backup and sync-as-backup. Some reviews of note:
http://www.macworld.com/article/3209287/data-center-cloud/google-backup-and-sync-review.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/07/13/3-things-to-remember-when-installing-googles-new-backup-and-sync-app
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...nc-app-merges-the-drive-and-photos-sync-apps/
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Backblaze would be the obvious destination if not for their 30 day limit on version history. No clue why they don't let you bump that up, even if it would be a paid upgrade.
I got a 4-year subscription to CrashPlan for $190 total, and my subscription expires June, 2019. I'm definitely disappointed that CrashPlan is going away, but at least they're honoring my subscription till my expiration date.
Is there anything even close to this price range anywhere else?
Is there anything even close to this price range anywhere else?
I guess pricing depends on who you are: an individual, a business or a school. Businesses & schools get the same, unlimited storage service, but schools get it for free while businesses have a per user cost. Haven't really researched the different regular consumer pricing as I don't really have a need at the moment.
I think it depends on how much data you have to backup. I'm using Arq with Amazon S3 for about 30GB and it costs be about $1.20 a month.
Yeah Arq + S3 with something like that works ok. Once you start getting close to 1TB, I found it to be a pain. Plus I was bit by the Arq bug where it removed all my Glacier data and it needed to be re-uploaded.
Arq also removed the fast restore option from Glacier and last I checked it wasn't back. So if you needed a file, you'd have to wait 4 hours.
I found a way to do computer to computer backups. Add a folder as a backup destination and make sure it's a path to a remotely mounted folder via automounter, autofs, script or whatever mechanism. Seems the CrashPlan client doesn't care 
With a year to go on 3 computers I took the deal. I think it is a good one and the service has saved me a few times when drives failed...or i screwed something up
I suspect that they just don't want us as customers. It's an easy way to exclude the folks with large backups. It appears that if I elect that deal then my current backup is unceremoniously deleted. There's no option to get the discounted pricing and preserve my current backup until I can upload the data again. And unless they've improved their upload speeds, it would take around 3 weeks to upload the 9TB.
You can still get the deal - it's just the data migration that you lose out on correct? I guess if you took that, you'd have to make temporary offsite backups just in case.
I use crash plan to a local hard drive, then to a hard drive at a friends house out of state. He keeps a drive at my house to do the same. I don’t want to use a cloud provider. And I like how my data is encrypted there so he can’t look at my files, and I can’t look at his. In addition, I backup both Mac and Windows machines (2 of each). Anyone found a good solution that works for this use case?